The relevance of commuter and work/school exposure in an epidemiological study on traffic-related air pollution (Publications)
Exposure during transport and at non-residential locations is ignored in most epidemiological studies of traffic-related air pollution. We investigated the impact of separately estimating NO2 long-ter
Predictive value of clinical and laboratory features for the main febrile diseases in children living in Tanzania: a prospective observational study (Publications)
BACKGROUND: To construct evidence-based guidelines for management of febrile illness, it is essential to identify clinical predictors for the main causes of fever, either to diagnose the disease when
Single-dose hepatitis A immunization: 7.5-year observational pilot study in Nicaraguan children to assess protective effectiveness and humoral immune... (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Universal 2-dose hepatitis A virus (HAV) vaccination of toddlers effectively controls hepatitis A. High vaccine costs, however, impede implementation in endemic countries. To test single-d
Elimination of <em>Schistosoma mansoni</em> in infected mice by slow release of artemisone (Publications)
The current treatment of schistosomiasis is based on the anti-helminthic drug praziquantel (PZQ). PZQ affects only the adult stages of schistosomes. In addition, resistance to PZQ is emerging. We sugg